Most Americans hold moderate mixed views on religion’s role in public life

Evidence

To be sure, most Americans are somewhere in the fuzzy middle on these issues. They recognize America’s vaguely Judeo-Christian past and Christianity’s numerical dominance in the United States. But they also celebrate the ideal of religious freedom and believe church–state separation to be a good thing. And yet it sometimes appears that Americans are gravitating toward extremes on these topics. — Andrew L. Whitehead; Samuel L. Perry, Taking America Back for God, 39

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Fifty-three percent of Americans hold an unfavorable opinion of Islam — Sahar F. Aziz, Sticks and Stones, the Words That Hurt:…, 426; Americans were nearly evenly split in their views of Islam in 2011 — Sahar F. Aziz, The Racial Muslim: When Racism Quashes…, 1616

Broader Connections

• Fifty-three percent of Americans hold an unfavorable opinion of Islam #qualifies (0.72) — Sahar F. Aziz, Sticks and Stones, the Words That Hurt, 426
• Americans were nearly evenly split in their views of Islam in 2011 #qualifies (0.72) — Sahar F. Aziz, The Racial Muslim, 1616